If one has never been to St. Petersburg, Russia, it is difficult to describe its particular strangeness; the slightly otherworldly quality captured so well by...continue...
Recording information: Dom Radio, St. Petersburg, Russia (11/2013/03/2014)....continue...

Since its founding, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has maintained an unfaltering commitment to commissioning new music, resulting in substantial new works from a diverse...continue...
Recording information: Cincinnati Music Hall (05/2016); Cincinnati Music Hall (11/2015)....continue...

Antonio Soler was a scholar, musicologist (he wrote about the history of Spanish music), composer and virtuoso keyboard player. He was in the service of...continue...
Recording information: Diego de León, Madrid, Spain (10/10/2015-10/12/2015)....continue...

Four Concerti Grossi - the embodiment of joyous music making. Four journeys into the past to link a modern musical language with characteristic aspects of...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium Schloss Grafenegg, Niederösterreich (09/14/2015-09/19/2015)....continue...

Pinchas Zukerman has remained a phenomenon in the world of music for over four decades. His musical genius, prodigious technique and unwavering artistic standards are...continue...
Recording information: Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada (11/05/2015/11/06/2015)....continue...

John Rutter's latest major work Visions is a four-movement showpiece for solo violin, string orchestra, harp and choir of treble voices, based on the theme...continue...
Recording information: All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London (07/16/2016/07/17/2016)....continue...

Austrian Baroque music takes center stage in the repertoire of this unusual Baroque ensemble. The music performed at the Imperial Court in Vienna at this...continue...
Recording information: Sommerrefektorium St. Florian, Austria (04/21/2016-04/24/2016)....continue...

This release takes the listener through a special journey. Guided by the cello, you will be traversed across history through what you hear but also...continue...
Recording information: Chapelle de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours, Paris (04/02/2007-04/06/2007); Eglise de Pampigny, Switzerland (04/02/2007-04/06/2007); Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains Church an...continue...

On March 23, 1783, an important concert took place in Vienna, playing a considerable role for Mozart's reputation in the imperial capital, where he had...continue...
Recording information: Ettelbruck, Center des Arts Pluriels (02/2015); Malonne, chapelle de l'Institut Saint-Berthuin (02/2015); Ettelbruck, Center des Arts Pluriels (05/2016); Malonne, chapelle de l'...continue...

"Something new every moment." If we are to believe Shunske Sato, leader of Concerto Koln and soloist on this sparkling new release of Antonio Vivaldi's...continue...
Recording information: Kempen, Germany (06/25/2016/06/26/2016)....continue...

Maria Joao Pires, grand dame of the piano world with her deep devotion to understanding the personality of the music which she performs, has performed...continue...
Recording information: International Music Festival 'Chopin and his Europe ' (08/29/2010); International Music Festival 'Chopin and his Europe ' (08/29/2014)....continue...

This new release is the third new recording by recorder phenomenon Erik Bosgraaf of music by Georg Philipp Telemann, as a preparation for the Telemann-year...continue...
Recording information: Kruiskerk Burgum, The Netherlands (08/2015)....continue...

Italian historical-instrument ensemble Gli incogniti present an all-Vivaldi program featuring five of the composer's concertos for two violins alongside his Concerto for Strings RV127. Led...continue...

Dance is the final part of a trilogy of albums following Flight and Seasons. This project started as a concept album, using the title as...continue...
Recording information: Abbey Road Studios, London (06/2016); St Pauls New Southgate (06/2016)....continue...

As Telemann revealed in his autobiography transmitted by Matheson, during his early years he had become acquainted with "Polish and Hanakian music in its genuine...continue...
Recording information: Schloá Kremsegg, Oberösterreich (08/16/2012-08/19/2012)....continue...

Uuno Klami write his Violin Concerto during World War II and it was premiered in Stockholm in 1944. The piece was lost during the war...continue...
Recording information: Madetoja Hall, Oulu, Finland (03/04/2016-03/05/2016); Madetoja Hall, Oulu, Finland (05/08/2015-05/09/2015)....continue...

These two concertos – one a staple of the repertoire, the other almost unknown – share melodic richness and a Spanish influence. Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole...continue...
Recording information: The Pau Casals Hall, L'Auditori, Barcelona, Spain (06/25/2015-06/27/2015)....continue...

This album explores the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas. One of the works featured here is a long-lost Sonata for solo Cello, composed...continue...
Recording information: Hungarian Radio, Budapest (10/11/2015-10/17/2015)....continue...

Max Reger has remained a controversial composer, in a way perhaps comparable to Wagner, Hindemith and Shostakovich. Even today, the presence of his oeuvre is...continue...
Recording information: Clara-Wieck-Auditorium, Sandhausen, Germany (2015-07-13_2015-07-15&2016-)....continue...

The entirety of Tchaikovsky's repertoire for solo violin was written during a period of amazing turbulence between 1875 and 1878. The most notable product of...continue...
Recording information: DZZ Studio 5 in Moscow, Russia (04/2006); MCO Studio 5 in Hilversum, The Netherlands (04/2006)....continue...

This third volume of our Michael Gielen Edition is devoted to music by Johannes Brahms, with all the recordings taken from the archives of the...continue...
Recording information: Baden-Baden Hans-Rosbaud-Studio (01/16/1996); Konzerthaus, Freiburg, Germany (01/16/1996); Baden-Baden Hans-Rosbaud-Studio (04/28/1989-05/03/1989); Konzerthaus, Freiburg, German...continue...

Throughout his career, Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera artfully incorporated the folk music and dance forms of his native land into increasingly modernist creations. From the...continue...
Recording information: Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York (02/10/2016); Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Obe (02/10/2016); Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New Yo...continue...

Ivan Jevtic, a French-Serbian composer, has more than one hundred works in his oeuvre, including an opera and many symphonic works and concertos. Most of...continue...
Recording information: à Paris église Saint-Germain des Prés (04/06/2014/04/07/2014); Kolarac Hall (04/06/2014/04/07/2014); Studio Ansemet de Genève, Alban Moraud et Benoit d'Hau (...continue...